Safety-button fastener



S. HSHMAN.

SAFETY BUTTON FASTENER.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 2. 1919.

1,362,786. Patented Dec. 21, 1920.

PATENT QFFECE.

SAM FISHMAN, OF NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE.

SAFETY-BUTTON FASTENER.

Application filed JuIy 2, 1919.

T all whom it may concern Be it known that I, SAM FISHMAN, a citizen ofthe United States, residing at Nashville, in the county of Davidson andState of Tennessee, have invented or discovered certain new and usefulImprovements in Safety-Button Fasteners, of which the following is aspecification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawing.

This invention has for its object toprovide a safety pin button fastenerwhich comprises a safety pin to which the shank or eye portion of abutton is attached in such a manner that the button cannot move endwiseof the pin, this attachment of the button to the pin being preferably atone end of the latter so that a button attached to a garment by a safetypin may be conveniently entered into or disengaged from a buttonhole. Tothis end, in the preferred form of my invention, the wire, of which thebody of the safety pin is composed, is engaged with an eye portion of abutton and is then twisted so as to form a closed eye in the wire of thesafety pin which will hold the button from endwise movement relative tothe safety pin, this closed eye be ing preferably at the end of thesafety pin opposite to the guard or keeper with which the free end ofthe safety pin is engaged when the pin is in closed or operativeposition.

In the accompanying drawing Figure 1 is a perspective view of apreferred form of the invention in which the button portlon of thedevice is provided with a. metal shank having an eye, and Fig. 2 is aperspective view of a slightly different form of the invention andshowing a button having an eye portion which is integral with the headportion of the button. Fig. 3 shows a modified form of the invention inwhich a button is attached to the spring coil portion of the safety pinby a closed wire loop which is independent of the wire formlng the bodyof the safety pin.

Referring to the drawing, 12 denotes the wire body of a safety pin whichis provided at one end with a guard or keeper 13 for 50 the point of thepin. The guard or keeper 13 is permanently attached to the pin 12,

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 21, 1920.

Serial No. 308,110.

or is a permanent part of said pin, the latter having, at its endopposite said guard or keeper, a spring coil which serves to retain thepointed member of the pin inthe guard or keeper. In the form of theinvention shown in Fig. 1 the body of the safety pin is provided at itsend opposite the guard or keeper with a closed loop or eye 14 which isengaged with the eye of the shank 15 of a button 16, the wire of thesafety pin having been passed through the eye of the said button shankbefore the safety pin wire had been twisted to form the closed loop oreye 14.

Fig. 2 shows a form of the invention similar to Fig. 1 excepting thatthe twisted loop or eye 1% is engaged with an eye portion 15 integralwith the button 16.

In the form of the invention shown in Fig. 3 the button 16 is attachedto the spring coil portion 14 of the safety pin by a fastening 17 whichis preferably of wire independent of the wire of the body of the safetypin and which is engaged with the said spring coil 11 and with the eye15 of the button 16 From the foregoing it will be understood that theinvention provides a safety pin button fastener to one end of which abutton is loosely or flexibly attached in such a manner that it mav bereadily entered into or disengaged from a buttonhole in a garment withas much facility as though the button were sewed on in an ordinarymanner; while the safety pin, being readily detachable from the garment,may be placed in different positions on the garment in such a manner asto loosen or tighten the latter, as may be desired. In other words, thebutton has a jointed connection with one end of the safety pin so thatit may be freely manipulated in buttoning or unbuttoning. The inventionis particularly adapted for use on the collar band of a shirt or othergarment where changes in the positions of the buttons are oftendesirable.

Of course it will be understood that the invention may vary from theparticular forms herein shown and described, and may comprise differentforms of buttons than those herein shown, as, for example, buttonshaving central bars instead of eyes or holes.

Having thus described my invention I 5 claim and desire to secure byLetters Patent:

A detachable button fastener consisting of a safety pin provided at oneend with a guard or keeper which is a permanent part thereof, saidpinhaving at its opposite end a spring coil which serves to retain the 10pointed member of said pin in said guard or keeper, combined with abutton provided with a closed loop or eye having a jointed connectionwith said spring coil.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature. 15

SAM FISHMAN.

